Dirty Dancing!

About 2 years ago Lindsey phoned me up to say that she'd heard that there was a West End production of Dirty Dancing, and that she couldn't contemplate going to see if with anyone else if I was up for it! Needless to say I was! But somehow through a mixture of high ticket demand (when we first started looking you had to book about 9 months to a year in advance) and disorganisation on our part we have only just managed to organise ourselves to go - and that was really only brought about by my realisation in February that if we didn't go before around August time it was going to be another 2 years before we'd manage it!

So, the men were called in to look after our respective kids and Lindsey and I had a day off and went to London. Actually I took 2 days off as I travelled to Kenilworth during the day on Friday to spend some time with her and her kids as I hadn't seen Ewan since he was 4 months old in April 2005, and I'd not met George (now 16 months) at all!

On Saturday morning we left Saul in charge and headed to the station to catch an incredibly overcrowded train to Marylebone station. On arrival we went to Covent Garden for lunch and a general meander around soaking up the atmosphere before wandering down the Strand to the theatre for the show.

Well, what can I say. It was FAB!!!! Somewhat cheesy in places, but completely wonderful nonetheless... Lindsey and I had spent much time the evening before boring Saul with wondering how they would have adapted the script, and how they might do various scenes on stage, but I'm pleased to say thanks to a very clever stage design it had been only very slightly changed from the film. It has to be said the audience was approximately 90% female and of a certain age, and the few men that were there looked rather bored throughout (they must have earned themselves serious brownie points for going along!), but all the girls were loving it!

A few words of advice for anyone thinking of going. If you are female get on with it - you won't regret it. If you are male and thinking of taking your other half then don't: pay for her to take a mate as she'll enjoy it loads more without you sat next to her tutting all the way through ;) And finally, not that I'm obsessed, but girls if you have an even vaguely weak bladder go to the loo somewhere before you get to the theatre - the audience ratio means the queues when you get there are huge!